Chain breaking and Kosterlitz-Thouless scaling at the many-body localization transition in the random-field Heisenberg spin chain

Despite tremendous theoretical efforts to understand subtleties of the many-body localization (MBL) transition, many questions remain open, in particular concerning its critical properties. Here we make the key observation that MBL in one dimension is accompanied by a spin freezing mechanism which c...

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Main Authors: Nicolas Laflorencie, Gabriel Lemarié, Nicolas Macé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-11-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.042033